What if in-kind ETF redemptions drain Bitcoin liquidity?
In-kind redemptions hand BTC directly to APs who dump into thinning order books, amplifying the drawdown; MSTR and Coinbase fall as levered proxies. Rhymes with the Oct-2025 $19bn liquidation cascade where forced selling met no bid. Forward angle: in-kind mechanics (vs cash-create) shorten the sell chain, so the spot impact is more immediate than the 2024 cash-redemption ETFs implied.
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The butterfly cascade
How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.
Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving
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What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a mixed shock. A wave of in-kind ETF redemptions forces authorized participants to dump spot Bitcoin, thinning order books and amplifying a sharp drawdown. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Bitcoin ▼ · Crypto confidence ▼ · Crypto liquidity ▼ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.